It's the kiss that launched the baby boom.

Or, it's the non-consensual assault that foreshadowed #MeToo.

Either way, the famous VJ Day shot of the sailor kissing the nurse, taken 80 years ago this month — August 14, 1945 — is one of the great iconic American images.

It's up there with photographer Joe Rosenthal's shot of the soldiers raising of the flag at Iwo Jima (taken six months before). Or the distant descendent of that picture — the 9/11 photo of the firemen raising the flag at the World Trade Center, taken by The Record's Thomas Franklin.

Only the Times Square image owes its provenance to not one, but two, photographers. Both snapped the same people at the same moment.

Victor Jorgensen's photo, printed in the New York Times on August 15, has fewer copyright restrictions. It's t

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